Is Karen Traviss just a latter-day Michael P. Kube-McDowell?

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2006-07-06 08:51pm

Anguirus wrote:
never harped on his depiction of Coruscant as the correct depiction and how George Lucas would be wrong if he ever said otherwise
Did Traviss actually say this? I thought that her argument/excuse was more along the lines of "LFL told me 3 million." Clearly, she's never paid attention to the implications of he movies, but I don't think even she's loony enough to say that Lucas would be wrong if he issued a statement otherwise.

Honestly, the source of the 3 million has changed several times according to her.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2006-07-09 04:55am

Noble Ire wrote: I've never heard any reference to Coruscant's "ecosystem" failing; hell, even after the Vong tore the place apart, the oxygen production systems in the undercity were still functioning.

By the way, how would it "revert" without a major restoration effort? Even if the planet's oceans still existed somewhere, they'd be buried under miles of cityscape, built up over tens of thousands of years. To bring them back, one would either have to destroy a signficant fraction of the planetary city all the way down (even at the height of DE destruction, it didn't get that bad), or build new, artificial oceans on top of the older skyscrapers.

Rebel Dream. Wedge was briefed that the survivors of Coruscant were huddling around functional atmospheric exchangers and that the air was turning foul.

Furthermore, you need technology to replicate the natural processes of a planet ecosystem. Even just a mild disturbance to the infrastructure could have a cascading effect on the entire system, although SW environmental technology appears to be extremely robust.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-07-09 12:32pm

PainRack wrote:Furthermore, you need technology to replicate the natural processes of a planet ecosystem. Even just a mild disturbance to the infrastructure could have a cascading effect on the entire system, although SW environmental technology appears to be extremely robust.

Even if the ecosystem was collapsing, as I suppose it was, that wouldn't explain how parts of the planet would "revert" back to their natural state, through kilometers of cityscape, whether it was ruined or not. It's not like the reconstruction authority would really aid the process; it's highly likely that rebuilding the artifical ecosystem would be a lot easier than regenerating the long dead, natural one.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2006-07-10 07:01am

Noble Ire wrote: Even if the ecosystem was collapsing, as I suppose it was, that wouldn't explain how parts of the planet would "revert" back to their natural state, through kilometers of cityscape, whether it was ruined or not. It's not like the reconstruction authority would really aid the process; it's highly likely that rebuilding the artifical ecosystem would be a lot easier than regenerating the long dead, natural one.

I won't use the word natural state........ however, the presence of the ocean and the generally diplidated condition of the beach around it may very well suggest that this "sea", maintained for asethetic and perhaps environmental purposes has suffered severe damage. Like what Conner said before, the destruction of Coruscant may very well have uncovered
interior lakes and oceans.

My own personal interpretation was that this ocean was orginally a reservoir of water beautified for recreational use before DE caused so much damage and pollution of the environment.